There’s a great anecdote at the start of Byzantium. The author – a Professor of Byzantine History at […]
I think it’s best to start with the parts of Company of Liars – Karen Maitland’s ‘novel of […]
Cricket 2.0 is a book that’s got the cricket community talking in the last year. Wisden, the sport’s […]
Although I briefly reviewed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my ‘November Reading: Recap’ post, it’s such a beautifully constructed […]
November was quite a busy month for me, so I haven’t found the time to post any reviews […]
Packed into only 192 pages, The Bottle Factory Outing is a real gem of a novel. I actually […]
Millennium is Tom Holland’s panoramic journey through the two centuries either side of the year 1000. It is, in […]
With a cast of characters including communism preaching Persian mystics, pillar-topping stylites and warrior-scholars, it’s hard not to […]
We are now three quarters of the way through the disaster that is 2020 – only three more […]
I raced through Machines Like Me. The narrative was gripping and enriched by a sense of foreboding. It […]
